Day 15: Shingo Takagi vs. Taichi
Uhm, I guess this was fine? This didn't provoke any emotions out of me, good or bad, but the "saving factor" (so to say) of the thing is that Shingo & Taichi are very good even when they're just beating each other up with their basic move-sets -- even without a bigger agenda to the thing. This was a solid little exhibition. **
Day 15: Jay White vs. Minoru Suzuki
I loved this. Suzuki was the perfect boogeyman here, always putting White in trouble & not letting him dictate the dance, and White's selling of it all was superb. The gameplan to attack the knee in the latter stages of the match was done great, and I also thought that Gedo's whole involvement was done well here, with it playing to the story of the bout pretty much perfectly. ***3/4
Day 15: Kazuchika Okada vs. Tomohiro Ishii
Can't name many matches this year more disappointing than this one right here. Ishii vs. Okada has been an instant hit each time they have faced each other in the past few years or so, but what they did here wasn't IT, to say the least. A couple of neat counters by Ishii here n' there, but even those weren't anything that I will remember, and all in all, this was just a complete bore. Felt like nothing of note happened for 99% of it, and goddamn was Okada straight up boring as hell when controlling things. **
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